Unless humans rapidly change mass food production systems, including eating less beef and dairy, emissions from the sector could add nearly 1 degree to global temperatures by 2100
They're the disasters that spawn an entire genre of TV shows and books - a supervolcano, a nuclear war, or a massive asteroid strike that leaves the Earth a barren and post-apocalyptic wasteland.
Hundreds of hay bales have landed on the doorsteps of battling farmers for Christmas as they continue to rebuild from multiple devastating flooding events.
Nebraska agriculture officials say another 1.8 million chickens must be killed after bird flu was found on a farm in the latest sign that the outbreak that has already prompted the slaughter of more than 50 million birds throughout the US continues to spread.
New Zealand's government on Tuesday proposed taxing the greenhouse gasses that farm animals make from burping and peeing as part of a plan to tackle climate change.
A new deal is taking Australia a step closer to a world-first vaccine that can help protect the country from the devastation of foot and mouth disease.
Australia's peak farming body has backed the federal government's decision to keep the border with Indonesia open, even as fears over our neighbour's foot-and-mouth disease outbreak continue to grow.
Aussie tourists holidaying in Bali risk bringing home a highly contagious virus which would totally devastate Australia's multi-billion-dollar livestock industry.
It was more than 20 years ago, but beekeeper Murray Bush remembers exactly where he was when he first heard varroa mites had been detected in New Zealand.
Driving down a windy canyon road in northern Oregon rangeland, Jordan Maley and April Aamodt are on the look out for Mormon crickets, giant insects that can ravage crops.
Thousands of cattle in feedlots in southwestern Kansas in the US have died of heat stress due to soaring temperatures, high humidity, and little wind in recent days.
A South Australian schoolboy is tonight waiting to hear if he's broken a new world record, after finding an enormous porcini mushroom in the Adelaide Hills.
Australian grain farmers are weathering a "perfect storm" of record-high fertiliser costs that are expected to result in lower yields and increased food prices.
Several south-east Queensland regions have been declared no longer in drought, but farmers say it will take more than a period of heavy rain to reverse years of hardship.